Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-08-26
DAKOTA NEWS.

DAKOTA NEWS.
The Huron Times has got new dress.
Hon. N. 81. Day is in the Black Hills.
Gov. Church has returned to Bis
marck.
-Elkton, the gate city, is having a
boom.
Sioux Falls claims to be as big town
as Fargo.
There are six prisoners in the county
jail at Huron.
The Methodist church at Roscoe will
have opera chairs.
1T is estimated that there are $4,000
soldiers in Dakota.
-Thrashing has commenced in the vi
cinity of Flandreau.
Timber in Bon Homme county is quite
plentiful and growing nicely.
Pierre wants Fort Sully removed to
within few miles of that city.
Grinders on the Northwestern Doland
extension are at work near Groton.
-Mss Eva G. Smith has been chosen
pricipal of the Huron high school.
Ambrose w. Mullen has been ap-
pointed Postmaster at DeSmet.
The Aberdeen city council is consider
ing the matter of street railways.
Rev. A. H. Clayton, of Mellette, has
accepted call to Idaho Territory.
The dwelling house of Elder MINIS, at
Northfeld, was struck by lightning.
"A second-class limited rate of 2 cents
per mile has been made on the Northern
Pacific.
Delegate Clifford and family will rusti-
cate few weeks on the shores of Big
Stone Lake.
The harvest of Brown county is thor
oughly under way and the wheat crop was
never better.
Grand Forks defeated Fargo at base
ball, the score standing five to four in favor
Of the former.
Henry Severn, an extensive farmer
near Jamestown, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed.
Gov. Church thinks President Cleve-
makes his western trip.
The Black Hills will send two cor
Dads Of agricultural and mineral products
to the fairs at Lincoln and Omaha.
-Stutsman county is organized for the
fall campaign. A temperance mass meet
ing was recently held at jamestown.
Col. Launsbe,ry, formerly of Bis
marck. has commenced the publication of
an evening daily at Duluth, the Journal.
The average wages of teachers per
month in Bon Homme county is 1888. 70,
and the cost of tuition per month is $1.19
per scholar.
The temperance people at Bismarck
threaten to take the matter into the courts
if the county commissioners do not coll q
local option election.
u. W. Holt, of Brown County, who is
now harvest ng his seventh crop of wheat,
estimates this years average ct thirty bush
els per acre. In 1856 his average was fif-
teen bushels.
In Pembina County the commission
ers met to consider the question of order
ing an election on local option, and but
two of the five members were present. No
action was taken.
The South Dakota's Investors Guide
is the name of new monthly published at
Scotland. The initial number is filed
with statistics and valuable information
concerning Dakota.
In Washington interview President
Cleveland is quoted as saying that Dakota
as one great state would establish sort of
equilibrium balancing the great state of
Texas in the southwest.
The Sunday Argus, at Fargo, has
been running o theological discussion for
and against Universalism. Maj. Edwards
does not, however, decide the whole matter
by giving his editorial opinion.
The Aberdeen Republican has COM
menced its seventh volume. On the ground
where in the open air, it was first pub.
lished, three story brick building is being
built to be occupied by the Republican.
The total valuation of Minnehaha
county is $7,6Oo,0oO. That of the city of
Sioux Falls $3,7l2,ooo. Fully 500, OC0 in
the city does not show up in the list, be-
ing manufactures exempted under special
laws.
j. B. Harrison, of Philadelphia, has
arrived at Sisseton Agency. He comes as
agent for the Indian Rights association to
see the land, Indian farming and the gen.
eral condition of the people. He will re-
main several days. From there he goas to
Devils Lake and thence to White Earth.
A special agent of the interior department
is expected in a few days to make allot-
ments under the Indian severalty law.
The catalogue of the Dakota State
Normal School makes good showing for
that institution. During the last year 1888
different students from seventeen different
counties of the Territory have enjoyed the
privileges of the school. President Will
Liam F. Gorrie is president of the school
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